the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.
This definition has the advantage of eschewing the pointless essentialism of trying to decide whether any specific object “is” art. If you drive a nail with an unshaped rock, it’s a tool, at least for the moment; if you get an aesthetic experience from something, it’s art, at least for the moment.
There is no ‘natural joint’.
In which case, “natural joint” is as good a category as any, no?
the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.
This definition has the advantage of eschewing the pointless essentialism of trying to decide whether any specific object “is” art. If you drive a nail with an unshaped rock, it’s a tool, at least for the moment; if you get an aesthetic experience from something, it’s art, at least for the moment.
There is no ‘natural joint’.
In which case, “natural joint” is as good a category as any, no?
But sure, it’s just shorthand, for me anyway.